Alexander Marks was an American historian, bibliographer and librarian.
Background
Born in Elberfeld, Germany, son of George Marx, a banker, and Gertrud Marx-Simon, a published poet. Alexander Marx grew up in Königsberg (East Prussia). Later he studied at the University of Berlin and at the Rabbiner-Seminar (Berlin), marrying in 1905 Hannah the daughter of R" David Zvi Hoffmann, rector of the Seminar.
Career
He spent a year in a Prussian artillery regiment where he excelled in horsemanship. In 1903, Marx accepted Solomon Schechter"s invitation to teach history at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and be its librarian. The JTS library on his arrival in 1903 contained 5,000 volumes and 3 manuscripts.
Much of Marx"s research in early Jewish printing remains unpublished.